BBC America will be airing the new mini-season of Torchwood only a few hours after it airs in the UK, according to Wired. Word is the five episodes will air on five consecutive nights sometime this summer. I was happy last year when they ran it a week after the episodes played only a week behind the British showings; this is even better! Apparently John Barrowman is also writing a Torchwood Comic that will be appearing in (surprise) Torchwood Magazine.
Doug Adams may be gone from our lives, but his legacy lives on, in many places online and off. One of the best is at HitchHikers, the new community repository. Then there are links like HitchHikers Guide, to let you play games and do a lot more. My favorite new BBC site is BBC 7, which includes the BBC’s SciFi Showcase, brand new and worth your attention! The Doctor Who entry alone is worth the price of admission… which is free, BTW. Ignore the fact that at the time of this page’s posting, the new Who series had not yet been signed off on! It is an old post, after all…LOL…
There is finally a Trailer online for the new Doctor Who series. See it at the BBC Dr Who cult site. If you prefer to check the site as a whole, THIS is your best link. Roxxy spotted a California license plate labeled SMEGOFF, so for those of you wondering, here is the H2G2 Red Dwarf info. If you don’t need the background, go straight to the Red Dwarf official site, and learn the latest about the new movie, the Austrailian connection, and a whole lot more.
If you missed the initial broadcast, DO NOT miss this Sunday’s return! They did a world-class job on tying up all the loose ends, and the story beat out any previous episode. It starts at 3PM EST on the east coast feed, and the same PST for the west coast feed, on the SciFi Channel. If you have your own dish, watch both! If not, at least record it to add this one to your collection!
After a year with no episodes, tonight saw the return of Odyssey 5! While scary in truly disturbing ways, it is also science fiction of the first order. And if you have any doubts about it’s humor content, be sure to check the Harry Mudd (Ted Rami) episode, number 12 from the first season. Put this on your must see list, and let me know what you think!
Also returning with new episodes is Andromeda on the SciFi channel. If I followed this right, the Canada company who made this series (and a few others, like the never-to-be-lamented MutantX) went belly up. Scifi channel stepped in with funding to keep the good show out of their collection running, and am I glad!
All in all, a quality week for SF on TV. Hope we get some more like it soon!
It is with sadness I pass on this link; another TOS star is in retrograde. After Spock, Scotty was the character I identified with most. Here is the short version, from the BBC .